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17468 results for: Keyword - Mr John Christopher Smith
We found 10008 matches on Author, 5400 matches on Event Comments, 4472 matches on Performance Comments, 1075 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

15051
16 March 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15052
30 March 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15053
01 April 1698 @ Clark's School, Paul's Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15054
25 April 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15055
12 May 1698 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

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15056
25 May 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15057
30 May 1698 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15058
17 February 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15059
08 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15060
17 March 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15061
29 March 1699 @ York Buildings

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

15062
12 May 1699 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15063
23 August 1699 @ Bartholomew Fair

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Mainpiece Title: Fryar Bacon; Or, The Country Justice : With The Humours Of tolfree The Miller, And His Son ralph

Performance Comment: A playbill: At Parker's and Doggett's Booth near Hosier-Lane End, in Smithfield, during the Time of Bartholomew-Fair, will be presented a New Droll, called, Fryar Bacon; or, The Country Justice: With the Humours of Tolfree the Miller, and his Son Ralph, Acted by Mr Doggett. With Variety of Scenes, Machines, Songs and Dances. Vivat Rex. (See William VanLennep, Some Early English Playbills, Harvard Library Bulletin, VIII (1954), opposite page 237.) The London Spy, August 1699, describes a visit to Bartholomew Fair, including an account of Doggett's droll and another, Dwarf Comedy, Sir-nam'd a Droll' called The Devil of a Wife. In the Post Man, 15-17 Aug. 1699, is an advance notice of rope dancing and a booth run by Barnes and Appleby between the Crown Tavern and the Hospital Gate, next to Miller's Droll Booth.
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Role: At Parker's and Doggett's Booth near Hos Actor: Lane End, in Smithfield, during the Time of Bartholomew-Fair, will be presented a New Droll, called, Fryar Bacon

15064
04 November 1699 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15065
03 January 1700 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

15066
20 January 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

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15067
February 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), commenting upon Betterton's success with I Henry IV (see 9 Jan. 1699@1700) pictures Betterton entering his Closet and praying to Shakespeare for further assistance (p. 25), with the result that "tho' some of those Plays that Batterton Acted were Historical, and consequently highly irregular, yet they never fail'd to please" (p. 26). Sullen adds: Well, this lucky hit of Batterton's put D. Lane in a non-plus! Shakespear's Ghost was rais'd at the New-house, and he seem'd to inhabit it for ever: What's to be done then? Oh, says Rich I'll pray as well as he-What? Shall a Heathen Player have more Religion than a Lawyer? No, it shall never be said--with that Mr R@@ goes up to the Garret (a pair of Stairs higher than his own Apartment) and taking Ben Johnson's Picture with him, he implores. This work implies that Betterton presented Henry VIII in addition to I Henry IV and that Rich revived Volpone, The Alchymist, and The Silent Woman, which had, according to the author of this work, lain unacted for twenty years (p. 26)

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15068
09 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

15069
11 March 1700 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

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Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

15070
19 March 1700 @ York Buildings

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Mainpiece Title: Concert

15071
20 March 1700 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

15072
20 April 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Lincoln's Inn Fields

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15073
03 June 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Rich's Company. This play was apparently never published, and the performance is known only by an advance announcement: Post Boy, 30 May-1 June 1700: The History of Hengist, the Saxon King of Kent, which before was designed to be Acted this day [1 June 1700], for the benefit of Mr Johnson, is therefore deferr'd till Monday. London Post, 7-10 June 1700: This Week the Morocco Ambassador diverted himself thrice at the Play-house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of Hengist, The Saxon King Of Kent

15074
October 1700 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perjured Husband; Or, The Adventures Of Venice

15075
03 March 1701 @ York Buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: New Vocal and Instrumental Music-